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Jay-Z Plots “Gangster” Tour, L.A. Reid Backs Up Nas’ Album Title, Ministry Bassist Paul Raven Found Dead

10/22/07, 9:28 am EST

  • Jay-Z will embark on a brief, five-date American Gangster Live tour in support of his new album, which will include shows at mid-size venues in Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia. The trek is set to begin on November 6th, the same day the album hits stores (dates after the jump).
  • Def Jam chairman L.A. Reid has spoken out on Nas‘ decision to name his December 11th album Nigger, saying, “Anything Nas wants to do, I completely stand beside him.” But Reverend Al Sharpton is continuing his crusade to make using the word a hate crime, saying Nas is “helping out the racists.”
  • Killing Joke and later Ministry bassist Paul Raven was found dead in his home in Geneva on Saturday by fellow musician Ted Parsons. Raven died at the age of forty-six of a heart attack. He was in Switzerland recording with French industrial band Treponem Pal.
  • AT&T will make Napster’s five-million-song catalog available for downloading through wireless access. AT&T has not announced which devices will work with the service, but songs will cost $1.99 each or $7.49 for five per month.
  • Slash and Trent Reznor’s campaign to make the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen” the number-one single fell far short of its goal, with the track peaking at forty-two thirty years after Rod Stewart swiped the top spot from the band. The single fared much better on vinyl, which probably says a lot about the downloading habits of the Sex Pistol’s core demographic.

Jay-Z American Gangster Live Tour Dates:

November 6: Los Angeles (House of Blues)
November 7: Chicago (House of Blues)
November 9: Baltimore (Ramshead)
November 11: New York (Hammerstein Ballroom)
November 12: Philadelphia (Fillmore)


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Rodney | 2/4/2008, 11:02 pm EST

I am am African American male from the south and I love Blk people but I dislike ni##ers like somw of you who support nas yall are nothing but Ni##ers youselfs for supporting him. Black people won’t support him Ni##ers will

True Don | 1/25/2008, 1:38 am EST

Nas seems to be doing what we’re all taught from infancy “Standin’ firm on his ground” and fightin’ for what he believes his right! look, Hip-Hop was invented by revolutionary, for revolutionary reasons and this subject could be dealt with in literal and figurative senses, he chose the intellectual so stop giving him a rear-end pain! Nas is adressing a subject close to his heart and speaks the language his subjects can best comprehend hence there’s different genres and artistes meaning simply that if you dont like it, switch the dial and try a different radio station where you wont have to nag and impose YOUR insecurities by projecting them on others. In encapsulating this whole rap, I like Nas and though i’ve never been called a nigga/er by anyone other than my own boys/peeps, i know the depth of the word in his soul as a young black earthling so please black AND white people, let us be what we simply are …, NIGGAZ! Naz. Large up!!!

Troublesome 1 | 1/21/2008, 3:40 am EST

Is it me or does Al Sharpton needs another purm . Hay everybody needs a job, he would criticize a new born baby if he didn’t have nobody else to fuck with. So let’s just let him and Jesse Jackson have their moments. some white celebrity is about to slip up real soon and they’ll form a march and forget all about Nas.

kanye west | 10/30/2007, 4:26 pm EST

george bush doesnt like black people.but i only use mixed black women in my videos cuz they be finer..you know you dont want no dark black women ruining my videos..but george bush doesnt like black people..us negro can dicriminate against other negros,especially if there too dark..

Mr. Wells | 10/29/2007, 1:54 pm EST

You are all right. You all just WON’T get it. Seems like white people just feel excluded. It’s ok we understand what that’s like. WE didn’t invent that word you did, we stole it back AND made it exclusive. The only black people who seem to despise this word the most are politicians and bullsh*t councilmen and women who want to appear on your side. But when these same motherf******(white AND black) go looking for an edge in the polls what do they do ALL the time? They come holler at the niggers. They come looking for the rap vote. Everytime. Now an album title from a music genre that has no authentic respect outside of it’s own community has put the whole country in an uproar. A MUSIC ALBUM! Don’t we as Americans have more pressing business to discuss than some nigga off the streets? I’m sure there is something…….

bob | 10/27/2007, 3:12 pm EST

and if the word is really that negative, and “brings you down”- then quit spreading it to the world. i guess i just ‘dont get it’.

bob | 10/27/2007, 3:07 pm EST

so am i not allowed to say the name of the album because i am white?

Al Sharpton | 10/27/2007, 4:32 am EST

Don’t be expousin’ any rascal dilatantes in my erection!

lule | 10/24/2007, 4:38 am EST

je shum i mir te adhuroj shum

The Pig In Zen | 10/22/2007, 10:39 am EST

You know who helps out the racists? Al Sharpton.

charliechuckchaz | 10/22/2007, 9:41 am EST

I’m pretty sure you guys got a big type-o going up on the paragraph about Jay-Z. Is he the one standing beside Nas? Hmmmm…..

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